Guinness World Records List

Guinness World Records List

ID

Record

Who

What

Where

When

Explain

15421

Largest parade of tow trucks

Worldwide Equipment Sales

United States, Joliet

13 November 2011

The largest parade of tow trucks consisted of 324 tow trucks and was organized by Worldwide Equipment Sales Tow Trucks for Tots (USA). The trucks participated in a parade from Joliet to Bridgeview, Illinois, USA, on 13 November 2011.

15422

First television soap opera

Faraway Hill

first

,

18 December 1946

In 1944 Lever Brothers sponsored TV versions of two radio soaps Big Sister and Aunt Jenny’s True Life Stories on Dumont’s New York station, but two years later Faraway Hill (2 October to 18 December 1946) – also on Dumont – became the first networked soap opera. Britain’s first TV soap opera was The Grove Family (BBC) which began on 9 April 1954. The family was named after the BBC’s Lime Grove Studio where the production was made.

15423

Longest journey on an electric mobility vehicle (team)

John Duckworth, John Seamons, Simon Parrott, Jason Uren, Geoff West

United Kingdom, Plymouth

17 October 2007

7The longest journey on an electric mobility vehicle is 8609.24 km (5,349.52 miles) and was achieved by John Duckworth, John Seamons, Simon Parrott, Jason Uren and Geoff West (all UK) who travelled from Land's End, anticlockwise around mainland UK, back to Land's End on a Horizon Ventura electric mobility scooter from 24 June to 17 October 2007.John Duckworth, Simon Parrott and Geoff West were the previous record holders as well.

15424

Rarest snake

Antiguan racer

Antigua and Barbuda

01 January 2004

The rarest snake is the Antiguan racer (Alsophis antiguae) of which fewer than 150 are now believed to exist, including those in captivity. The snake was once common in Antigua, but disappeared from the island following the introduction of non-indigenous predators, black and brown rats (Rattus rattus and Rattus norvegicus) and then the Asian mongoose (Herpestes javanicus). The racer was thought to be extinct, but in 1989 was rediscovered only on Great Bird Island off the northeast coast of Antigua. Following intense conservation programmes, the species is slowly recovering, although remains classified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN (World Conservation Union) Red List 2004.

15425

Youngest identified group of drug addicts

Young Afghan women with babies

Afghanistan

01 January 2010

Young Afghan women with babies have produced the youngest group of drug addicts, which is increasing rapidly and giving rise to the youngest drug addicted population in the world. The mothers often become addicted to heroin and opium, products of Afghanistan's poppy crop, because their husbands smoke heroin, and most of the children become addicted to drugs because their mothers blow heroin smoke at them to calm them. Narcotics are also used for children to relieve pain, hence children as young as two have been identified as addicted and the US State Department has categorised them as the youngest drug addicted group ever found for which there are no established treatment protocols.

15426

Longest orbital survey of an outer planet

Cassini

Not Applicable

09 December 2014

As of 9 December 2014 the NASA/ESA Cassini spacecraft had been in orbit around the planet Saturn for 10 years 5 months 5 days – or 3,809 days in total. Cassini surpasses the previous record holder, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft, which orbited Jupiter for 7.75 years from 1995 to 2003. Cassini’s original mission was to orbit Saturn for just four years, but funding has since been granted for extensions to the mission, which will now last until some time in 2017. The current mission extension, called the Cassini Solstice mission, allows for an additional 155 orbits of the planet, including 54 more flybys of the moon Titan and 11 extra flybys of Enceladus.

15427

Thinnest light source

Columbia University's Engineering School, Konkuk University , Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Seoul National University

0.335 nanometre(s)

Korea (South), Seoul and New York

11 January 2011

The thinnest light source is 0.335 nm thick and was created by researchers from Seoul National University, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Konkuk University (all South Korea) and Columbia University (USA), as published on 15 June 2015. The light source consists of a single layer of graphene, and emits light within the visible spectrum. This could prove a promising material for thin, flexible and transparent displays. The findings were published in Nature Nanotechnology on 15 June 2015.

15428

Classics: Most car door windows smashed using the hands in two minutes

Each week here on guinnessworldrecords.com, we’ll be dipping into our extensive video library to bring you a classic piece of record-breaking action.

15429

Fastest journey from Land's End to John-O'-Groats on tandem bicycle (male)

15430

Fastest run 2,000 metres (female)

Sonia O'Sullivan

5/25.36 minute(s), second(s)

United Kingdom, Edinburgh

08 July 1994

5:25.36Sonia O'Sullivan (Ireland)Edinburgh, UK8 July 1994

15431

Most Oscar nominations without winning

Kevin O'Connell

20 times

United States, Hollywood

23 March 2003

Sound mixer Kevin O'Connell (USA) has received㺔 Oscar nominations for Sound starting with &ltem&gtTerms of Endearment&lt/em&gt (USA 1983) in 1984, but has never won.

15432

Longest career as an international darts player

Billy OBrien

Ireland, Wexford

01 June 2002

The longest career as an international darts player was that of Billy O'Brien (Ireland), which spanned from September 1968 to June 2002.

15433

First written language

Yangshao

China

01 January 1962

The earliest written language discovered has been on Yangshao culture pottery from Paa-t’o, found in 1962 near Xi’an in the Shaanxi province of China. This bears proto-characters for the numbers 5, 7 and 8 and has been dated to 5000&mdash4000 BC.Information taken from Archives (e.g.1993).Submitted for use in Scholastic's Modern Marvels.

15434

Internet crime - largest fine

American Coalition of Life Activitists/Advocates for Life

107700000 US dollar(s)

United States,

03 February 1999

US anti-abortion activists who operated a site called The Nuremberg Files that contained "Wanted" posters listing the names and addresses of doctors who perform abortions were ordered to pay more then $107.7 million (£65 million) in damages on 3 Feb 1999. Four doctors and two clinic workers who had been killed by activists since 1993 had their names crossed off on the site, and the wounded were highlighted in grey. The defendants were 12 individuals and organisations known collectively as the American Coalition of Life Activitists and Advocates for Life Ministries. The case is currently under appeal.

15435

Most libel damages awarded - company

Wall Street Journal

222700000 US dollar(s)

USA,

20 March 1997

On the 20 March 1997, the Wall Street Journal was ordered by a federal jury to pay $222.7million (£139million) to a Houston brokerage firm who claimed an article the paper ran in October 1993 contained false information and helped put it out of business.In May 1997 Judge Ewing Werlein threw out the $200 million punitive damage award against the Wall Street Journal but, in Nov 1997, he let stand the $22.7 million award in compensatory damages.

15436

Smallest conversion of an arcade game

Mathieu Henri

01 January 2008

Produced over the course of three nights in July 2008, Defender of the Favicon is a fully playable conversion of retro space shooter Defender (1980), reduced to 16 x 16 pixels in the icon of Mathieu “Poi” Henri’s web page.Featured in Guinness World Records Gamer''s Edition 2010

15437

Most critically acclaimed puzzle videogame for PSP

Lumines

89 percentage

Not Applicable,

30 September 2012

Lumines (Q Entertainment, 2005) was the PSP launch title with block-dropping addictiveness that became the most critically acclaimed puzzle game for PSP. As of September 2012, it had a Metacritic score of 89%.

15438

Worst space disaster - ground death toll

The Nedelin Disaster

91 people

Kazakhstan, Baikonur Space Centre

24 October 1960

In the greatest space disaster on the ground, 91 people were killed when an R-16 rocket exploded during fuelling at the Baikonur Space Centre, Kazakhastan on 24 Oct 1960.

15439

First row across any ocean (Ukraine)

15440

Guinness World Records statement: Sailendra Nath Roy

Guinness World Records would like to express our deepest sympathy following the tragic events on Sunday involving Sailendra Nath Roy.Our thoughts are with Mr. Roy’s family and friends at this time.

15441

Highest rate of TV viewing (country)

USA

United States

31 December 2012

The average viewer in the USA watched 293 minutes (4 hr 53 min) of TV every day in 2011, according to the International Communications Market Report published by Ofcom, the UK's regulator for the communications industry. Italy is next at 253 minutes (4 hr 13 min) followed by the UK at 242 min (4 hr 2 min).

Released on 7 March 2009, the blu-ray DVD edition of Bullet Train Zero Series: Always In Our Hearts (Japan 2009) has an unedited single camera shot lasting 5 hr 37 min 33 sec.The total length of the DVD is 5 hr 44 min 18 sec. The shot shows the view from the driver’s seat of a Japanese bullet train and was produced to mark the retirement of the Zero Series, the first of Japan’s electric bullet trains, after 44 years of service. The shot shows the entire trip from just after the train starts rolling at Shin-Osaka Station, where the train originates, to destination Hakata-Minami Station, all recorded without any cuts. This single shot was then transferred to Blu-ray disc without any editing.

15445

Most rounds in a boxing fight

Unknown

The greatest number of rounds was 276 in 4 hr 30 min when Jack Jones beat Patsy Tunney in Cheshire in 1825.Before the Queensbery Rules were introduced in 1867 each round of a fight would last until someone was knocked down. At that point the fighters would go back to their corners and then the fight would start again. There was no time limit nor was there any limit to the number of rounds. Because of this many fights at this time would end in draws.

15446

First female team to row across the Pacific

Natalia Cohen, Emma Mitchell, Laura Penhall

280:0:0 first

Australia, Cairns

25 January 2016

The first all-female team to row the Pacific Ocean is the Coxless Crew comprised of Laura Penhaul, Natalia Cohen and Emma Mitchell (all UK), who departed from San Francisco, California, USA, on 20 April 2015 on board Doris and arrived in Cairns, Queensland, Australia, on 25 January 2016. The trio completed the row in three legs, and was joined by fellow Brits Isabel Burnham (on the San Francisco to Hawaii leg), Lizanne Van Vuuren (Hawaii to Samoa) and Meg Dyos (Samoa to Cairns).

15447

First row of the navigable length of the Amazon River

Mark de Rond , Anton Wright

Brazil, Macapá

14 October 2013

The first people to row the navigable length of the Amazon River are Mark de Rond (Netherlands) and Anton Wright (UK), who embarked from Nauta in Peru on 13 September 2013 and rowed to Macapá in Brazil, arriving on 15 October 2013.Murilo Reis joined the team for part of the row. The boat was a Woodvale Pairs Class ocean rowing boat made of plywood reinforced with glass fibre and resins.

15448

Longest videogame marathon on Joust

James Vollandt

Canada, Victoria

08 July 1985

James Vollandt (USA) played the arcade version of Joust for 67 hr 30 min from 5–8 July 1985 at Johnny Zee’s Family Fun Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

15449

Planet with the shortest day

Jupiter

9/55/29.69 hour(s), minute(s), second(s)

, Outer Solar System

The planet Jupiter has the shortest day of all the eight major planets in the Solar System. It spins around on its axis once every 9 hr 55 min 29.69 sec.Jupiter has a small axial tilt of only 3.13 degrees, meaning it has little seasonal variation during its 11.86-year-long orbit of the Sun.

15450

Fastest completion of Banjo Kazooie (Rare, 1988)

Alex Penev

3/32/45 hour(s), minute(s), second(s)

Australia,

20 February 2000

The fastest completion of Banjo Kazooie (Rare, 1998) took 3 hr 32 min 45 sec and was achieved by Alex Penev (Australia) and verified by Twin Galaxies on 20 February 2000.Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011